February 28 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Chatto & Windus to ratify an agreement between Chatto and Herr J.H. Schufthas Boghandel of Copenhagen, Denmark, giving him the right to translate LM into Swedish [MTP].

Sam attended a lecture by John Lawson Stoddard who pioneered in giving travelogue lectures using the stereopticon. Sam wrote of the lecture to Howells on Mar. 1:

I attended one of the astonishingly popular lectures of an idiot by the name of Stoddard, who exhibits interesting stereopticon pictures and then knocks the interest all out of them with his chuckleheaded comments upon them. But all the world go there to look and listen, and are apparently well satisfied. And they ought to be fully satisfied, if the lecturer would only keep still, or die in the first act [MTHL 1: 426].

Mar. 31 statement from Worden & Co., New York, (stock brokers) shows Sam’s balance this day of $3,997.08 [MTP].